Religion in the 21st Century: Disciplinary Critique, Global Restructuring, Categorical Diversity
Religion as a category and object of study in (Western) academia has undergone a sequence of upheavals over the last several decades, responding to significant transformations in global society and as a reflection of internal disciplinary developments. This paper focuses on such transformations and...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox
2023
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Implicit religion
Année: 2021, Volume: 24, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 281-304 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Religion
/ Concept
/ Changement
/ Sociologie des religions
/ Science des religions
/ Histoire 1950-2021
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AD Sociologie des religions TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religious Studies
B Globalization B Secularization B recent theories of religion B sociology of religion B religions and nations B Religious Change |
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| Résumé: | Religion as a category and object of study in (Western) academia has undergone a sequence of upheavals over the last several decades, responding to significant transformations in global society and as a reflection of internal disciplinary developments. This paper focuses on such transformations and developments principally within the disciplines the sociology of religion and religious studies. After summarizing these transformations, it presents three interrelated arguments: a) Both transformations, in the disciplines and in the larger social context, are the latest versions of very long discussion and development that have their roots in the nineteenth-twentieth century foundation of religion as an analytic category, in the imperial/colonial spread and glocal appropriation of the category of religion, and in the "Westphalian" institutional modeling of religion with the modern nationstate. b) The current transformations in the "religious field" are a reflection of a decline in that modeling, yielding further uncertainty about how religion should be conceived. c) The ideas of religion and secularization should not be discarded, but should be contextualized in a broader diversity of categorization that goes beyond the binary modeling of religion/not-religion (or secular). A systems-theoretical approach informs all three arguments. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.23665 |